Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (NEI). Air-Sea Rescue June 11, 1945. View from low flying aircraft of a 13th Air Force B-24 ditched in Japanese-controlled waters off the coast of Celebes, NEI. A Catalina PBY flying boat of the Jungle Air Force's 2nd Emergency Rescue Squadron, lands and picks up the B-24 crew. However, as it takes off on the water, it founders and crashes, killing three men. An accompanying PBY lands immediately and picks up all survivors who are aboard a rubber raft. Crew members on the wing of the PBY, help survivors aboard.
U.S. P-47 fighter aircraft escort B-17 bombers of the Eighth Air Force in flight over Germany. Gun camera captures straffing attack against German locomotive on tracks. U.S. aircraft and German planes fight air battle. Aerial gun camera footage shows U.S. aircraft shoot down German Luftwaffe airplanes. German planes under fire and some exploding in mid-air. German planes catch fire and fall from the sky.
Air Search for United States Air Force aircraft C-47 which crashed in French Italian Alps. B-26 aircraft taxis at Nice Airport, France. A French C-47 lands on a runway. Paramedics prepare to board a C-47 for personnel and equipment drop in crash site area. Rescue personnel load equipment into C-47. Pilots and paramedics check map. Group kneels on ramp with map spread out. Paramedic jumpmaster, Master Sergeant Curtiss, of the 84th Air Rescue Squadron, holds pre-mission briefing. Major Rufus Hessberg, paramedic flight surgeon, is among the group preparing for the mission.
Brigadier General Benjamin D Foulois, Chief of Air Service, American Expeditionary Forces, seen together with a group of United States Army Air Service officers in France during World War I. They look at DH-4 aircraft. Group of Air Service officers pose for photographs. They play slapstick jokes on each other as they pose. Plane in the background. They talk and laugh during group photograph. A still photograph of a group of early United States Navy pilots.
An Allied air balloon in France during World War I. Allied soldiers push a plane and the plane in flight after taking off. Men in a field as an air balloon takes off. The balloon observer in the field. German soldiers fire an anti aircraft gun at the balloon and the aircraft. Damaged aircraft in a field as people look at it. The air balloon burns after being shot down by the enemy. The balloon descends.
General William C Westmoreland visits 32nd Air Defense headquarters in Kaiserslautern, Germany. General Westmoreland arrives at parade field. He salutes Honor Guard. Band plays and marches. The General enters the 32nd Air Defense Command Headquarters building. Board reads '32nd Army Air Defense Command Headquarters'. General Westmoreland comes out of the building
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